Police Sergeant Practice EXAM 2025/2026 ||
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
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Arrest warrant .......Answer.........1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of
that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
,age 2 of 42
Mapp v. Ohio .......Answer.........Established the exclusionary rule
was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be
used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions .......Answer.........Consent, warrant,
exigency, vehicle inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle,
plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) .......Answer.........search is valid of a
person and area under him immediate control form which he
could produce a weapon or destroy evidence
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) .......Answer.........movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) .......Answer.........can search a vehicle
when reasonable to believe will find evidence of the offense.
Only in passenger compartment.
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inductive reasoning .......Answer.........factual and logical
explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning .......Answer.........hypothesis
neighborhood canvas .......Answer.........helpful in about 20% of
investigations
vehicle canvas .......Answer.........get description, location, plate of
vehicles in the area with description of anything suspicious ie
blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes .......Answer.........primary is where
first criminal act occurred, secondary scenes are where all
subsequent scenes occurred.
, age 4 of 42
Evidence in "open view" .......Answer.........processed before other
items/bodies to make sure no undue damage is done to families
by media or common talk.
3 kinds of evidence .......Answer.........Corpus delicti evidence -
evidence that is needed to prove the commission of the crime
Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or
connects the scene or victim to the suspect
Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a
discarded ID at the scene.
Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an
area after the boundary has been determined